EnterpriseDB (EDB), a database platform company for digital business, announced Wednesday a new partnership with Hitachi Ltd. The partnership is designed to help organizations worldwide accelerate their digital transformation and adopt next generation data center solutions featuring the EDB Postgres Platform.
Hitachi helps organizations modernize with an agile IT environment that supports new operations, customer experiences, and business models to keep up with constant change and new demands from customers and the marketplace. Hitachi has taken a leadership role in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) industry, developing systems for customers that support machine-driven data. Hitachi also has a group dedicated to working with open source solutions, including PostgreSQL with the EDB Postgres Platform.
EnterpriseDB, based in Bedford, Massachusetts, delivers open source-based data platform for new applications, cloud re-platforming, application modernization, and legacy migration. EnterpriseDB integrates with enterprise technologies and infrastructures for hybrid cloud management, data integration, and data warehousing. Its users benefit from high performing, reliable, flexible, open, and cost-effective data management platform available.
“EDB and Hitachi have a history of collaboration and with this partnership agreement, our two companies can take our partnership to a new level to support our customers and provide the highest quality solutions,” said Akira Kato, General Manager of IoT & Cloud Services Business Division, Hitachi. “Working together, Hitachi and EDB can ensure organizations struggling with the challenges of Big Data, mobile, and IoT, have a strong alliance to ensure their success with open source.”
“Organizations turn to Hitachi for help in modernizing their infrastructures because of the company’s expertise in building solutions with the latest technology. And today, latest technology means a multi-model database like EDB Postgres, supporting structured and unstructured data, in a high availability solution that meets the needs of today’s agile and flexible digital applications,” said Marc Linster, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Product Development and Services, at EDB. “Hitachi has experience deploying EDB Postgres to provide the kind of agility and flexibility enterprises need for modern digital applications. The partnership enables EDB and Hitachi to take advantage of greater opportunities in Japan.”
